commonly used nomenclature - FreeBSD

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I wonder what the commonly used nomenclature is within the field of
emulators for
a) The software that constitutes the emulator itself
b) The software that runs on top of the emulator
I hoped to find a single noun, ...

commonly used nomenclature

I wonder what the commonly used nomenclature is within the field of
emulators for
a) The software that constitutes the emulator itself
b) The software that runs on top of the emulator

I hoped to find a single noun, so I don't have to use the rather long
sentences as above everywhere I want to refer to one of the two
softwares.

Greetings

Flo

Re: commonly used nomenclature

I should note that I alreay use the terms host and target. Host for the
hardware system on which the emulator runs, target for the system
beeing emulated by the emulator.

Re: commonly used nomenclature

Flo wrote:
> I wonder what the commonly used nomenclature is within the field of
> emulators for
> a) The software that constitutes the emulator itself
> b) The software that runs on top of the emulator

WINE Is not an Emulator. It's an implementation of the Win32 and API and
related things.
But why don't you just call the emulator an emulator?